128: Altered States, Family Weddings, & Pandemic Speakeasies
Night Call
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 564 Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Emily is on the road again, so it's just Tess and Molly this week taking calls calls calls, calls from the public! First we get a call from a listener debating whether or not to go to a family wedding. We talk about the no-win situation that is Coronavirus weddings - what to do when your family won't cancel, and why everyone should cancel big family events this fall and winter if possible even if they put money down. Then it's Spanky's, the secret Los Angeles afterhours speakeasy that went viral for sending out this email: “Somewhere in Los Angeles, we’ve curated a small intimate space where friends, lovers, bartenders and bootleggers, DJs, musicians, wanna-be celebrities, drug dealers and baristas, pimps, prostitutes and Johns can come together and reacquaint ourselves with the nightlife that we once loved and lost.” Would you go to a sketchy after hours listed at a location that turns up as a random houseless section of Mulholland Drive thrown by promoters who are known creeps? Then it's Altered States!!! Ken Russell's 1980 drug nightmare comes to life through our words. Now more than ever we need movies about sexy druggy academic types putting themselves in drug induced dream states to push it to the limit. Tess and Molly talk about whether we'd get in the isolation tank, with or without William Hurt, Bob Balaban, and Blair Brown, and why Total Recall raves and San Junipero type digital escapism are so appealing right now. Take some mushrooms in a cave and get in the tank with NIGHT CALL!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.0 | It's 11.11 p.m. in an isolation tank. |
| 0:09.1 | And you're listening to Night Call. |
| 0:19.6 | Hello and welcome to Night Call, a call-in show for our dystopian reality. I am Molly Lambert, and with me is |
| 0:27.5 | Tess Lynch, and there is no Emily this week because she is driving back across the country, which sounds fun. |
| 0:33.6 | Yeah, Godspeed, Emily. |
| 0:36.0 | Hi, Molly. What's up? Hey, Tess. How are you doing? I'm pretty good. I'm pretty good. I mean, is that we've talked about this before, but there's no answer. Like, pretty good. I don't know. Pretty good, I think, is the only right answer. I'm pretty happy that we can breathe the air again. That's the main thing. Yes, that is the main thing. |
| 0:56.9 | Yeah, it's clearing up a bit, but it's still kind of chunky, and I've been suspicious that the |
| 1:02.2 | AQI is not accurate. That's my conspiracy theory. Because there was a day recently where it was an |
| 1:10.4 | AQI of, I think, 83, which is considered moderate. |
| 1:13.9 | But it was, I was sneezing and the air tasted like a grill and I was not a fan. |
| 1:20.5 | I think we're right at the point where the moderate air feels like delicious fresh air because at least it's not the very bad air. |
| 1:30.8 | It's not the chunky, chunky air, the chewy air. |
| 1:34.2 | I like the idea of the air tasting like a grill. |
| 1:37.7 | It had such a flavor to it. |
| 1:39.6 | It was very, and especially because one of the symptoms of coronavirus is a change in taste and smell. |
| 1:46.4 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:47.1 | It made me very paranoid. |
| 1:48.5 | But no, it was just the air. |
| 1:50.1 | Yeah, it did, it did like kind of taste like a Western bacon cheese burger. |
| 1:55.0 | Yeah, it had the mesquite. |
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