94: The Lawnmower Women
Night Call
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 564 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Unnerving CGI January continues with The Lawnmower Man, the best Stephen King movie completely disavowed by Stephen King! Plus: what is Swedish Death Cleaning and should we all get into it? A trip back to our haunted doll roots with a talking Elsa from Frozen doll that cannot be vanquished. And we are joined by guest cyber-security activist Emma Cunningham for a chat about predictive policing and other pseudoscientific software. Should we get wrapped in Faraday bags forever? Find out on an all new Night Call!
CONTENT WARNING: molestation in The Lawnmower Man is discussed
FOOTNOTES:
- Swedish Death Cleaning
- Haunted Elsa doll
- Stephen King vs. Lawnmower Man lawsuit
- We quoted from the synopsis on Wikipedia
- Lawnmower man sex scene
- Aerosmith Amazing video
- Lawnmower meme
- David Koresh loved The Lawnmower Man
- Tweet tip re: DK and the LM
- Emma's twitter
- Faraday bags
- Hacking key fobs
- SCAN
- Facial recognition's racial bias
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.5 | Welcome to Night Call, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:14.4 | It's 10.32 p.m. in cyberspace. |
| 0:20.4 | And you're listening tonight call. Hello everyone and welcome to Night Call, A Show for Your Strange Days and Lonely Nights. |
| 0:47.2 | I am Molly Lambert, and with me are Emily Yoshida and Tess Lynch. |
| 0:52.2 | Hello! |
| 0:53.4 | We're going to start off with the question that's been on everyone's mind, posed by reader and friend Justine. What is Swedish death cleaning? Had you guys ever heard of Swedish death cleaning? Oh, definitely. Really? Yeah. It's like the most metal kind of cleaning. No, I heard about it because it's like, I feel like people were talking about it like around the time that Marie Kondo was, was blowing up to. Same idea. |
| 1:14.9 | It's kind of similar. Well, via Justine, Swedish death cleaning is basically like, |
| 1:20.8 | clean your house like you are about to die because you are. Get all your documents in one place |
| 1:26.3 | and throw out all your trinkets and crap. I realize |
| 1:29.2 | I've been doing this my whole life. I leave my house each morning assuming I'll never make it back. |
| 1:34.6 | Nice. Thank you, Justine. So there was an article in BuzzFeed about this from a while ago. There's a book |
| 1:41.3 | written by a Swedish woman who says that she is between |
| 1:45.1 | 80 and 100 years old, but does not get more specific than that. Margarita Magnuson. There you go. |
| 1:52.5 | I had not written that down. So I guess the word for death cleaning in Swedish is |
| 1:58.1 | Dostadning. Oh, yeah. |
| 2:01.3 | Yeah. |
| 2:02.0 | And, but I thought the most interesting, I mean, first of all, this is a great idea, |
| 2:06.1 | and I am going to go home and do it, although I hope I don't die. |
| 2:09.9 | But one of the things I thought was really great about it was that she suggests in the |
| 2:14.3 | book that you make a throwaway box, which is stuff that is sentimental to you, |
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