75: Once Upon A Time ... In Dunkin with Ezra Koenig
Night Call
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 564 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2019
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Emily, Molly and Tess have a spirited debate about the greatness of Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, (SPOILERS!) and special guest Ezra Koenig (Vampire Weekend) joins the pod to talk about coffee coolattas, sitcoms and anime. Plus: the "party bug" cicadas that explode during orgies.
******THIS EPISODE INCLUDES SPOILERS FOR ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD******
FOOTNOTES:
1. Ezra's podcast, Time Crisis
2. The fungal hallucinogen that makes cicadas party until their butts fall off (LIVESCIENCE)
3. Our newsletter, available for supporters of our Patreon
4. Bruce Lee's daughter responds to the scene depicting her father in OUATIH
5. Manson family explainer for background
7. Molly on Karina Longworth's podcast talking about Dean Martin
8. Vampire Weekend's Father of the Bride tour
10. The difference between a milkshake and a frappe
11. RIP Coolatta
12. Scooters are less eco-friendly than we thought
15. Bee and Puppycat
17. Poop on the moon
18. Picture of flag on the moon in 2012
20. Scuba diving mysteries thread
21. Octopus attack
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.5 | Welcome to Nightcall, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:09.8 | It's 22.m. at Central Park, and you're listening to Night Call, podcast for your strange days and lonely nights. |
| 0:30.5 | I'm Molly Lambert and here with me in Los Angeles are Tess Lynch and Emily Oshita. |
| 0:36.1 | What? |
| 0:36.6 | What? |
| 0:36.9 | That's right. |
| 0:55.0 | All the time. I am a Los Angeles resident. Correct. As now. We've called the corners. And later today we'll be joined by our guests, Ezra Koenig, of Vampire Weekend. To celebrate, we wanted to tell you about a fungal hallucinogen that makes bugs party till their butts fall off. |
| 1:00.5 | Guys, I'm obsessed with this. I talked about it on the Daily Zykeist when I guessed it a while ago, |
| 1:07.4 | but we really need to talk about the party bugs. So cicadas are being infected with a fungus that makes, |
| 1:11.1 | this obviously, by the way, comes from live science. Where else else would it come from so this fungus has traces of amphetamines in it and as a result it makes the bugs like jittery |
| 1:19.8 | and they they kind of they're like part they're dancing and they're having sex with each other |
| 1:24.6 | they have sex with whoever is around. And then the fungus |
| 1:29.8 | makes their bodies explode and legs are flying off and guts are spraying everywhere. And it's |
| 1:36.8 | crazy. They party their butts off. Yeah. It's hallucinogens and amphetamines. There are traces |
| 1:43.0 | of that in the fungus. |
| 1:46.7 | It's the Massapora fungus. So where's this happening? |
| 1:48.7 | Like, where's the fungus? |
| 1:50.3 | Cicatos are everywhere. |
| 1:51.4 | The people doing the research were at the University of West Virginia. |
| 1:56.0 | And so I guess the fungus is sexually transmitted. |
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