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Night Call

96: Sex Lies & CD-Roms

Night Call

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.6 • 564 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

It’s Spooky Love February at Night Call! First a followup about Wall-E and robot genders! Then it’s Ballie, the nonthreatening spokesthing robot surveillance ball shaped robot! Molly went to Britneyland and tells Emily and Tess about her journey there, prompting a fun chat about escape rooms, pop up museums and staring down a Britney infinity mirror at the last twenty years of your life! Then it’s the mystery of The Golden Suicides - revisiting Nancy Jo Sales’ Vanity Fair article about Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake. Was it a case of cult stalking, drug addiction, or both? 

FOOTNOTES:

  1. Kate Borenstein re: Wall-E's gender
  2. Disco Robots of Pasadena
  3. Ballie the non-threatening robot
  4. EMPs
  5. Luna-P
  6. Molly covers the Britney pop-up for LAT
  7. Sleepcasts
  8. Dion McGregor
  9. Epley Maneuver
  10. The Golden Suicides
  11. Night Call Patreon
  12. Night Call socials: Twitter @nightcallpod // Facebook @nightcallpodcast// Instagram @nightcallpodcast

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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.

0:17.4

It's 147 a.m.

0:19.9

In the St. Mark's Church Rectory, and you're listening to Nightcala podcast for your strange days and lonely nights.

0:51.0

I'm here in L.A. My name is Tess Lynch and with me as always are.

1:01.1

Emily Yoshida and Molly Lambert. Guys, we have a lot of robot needs to cover at the talk of this show. It's our brief robot conversation from last week.

1:05.2

Spot news. Spot news. First off, we have a follow-up on what we were talking about last week. Does Wall E have a gender?

1:15.6

Is he male? Is EVEy female? I looked into this and I found Kate Bornstein's blog. She has a whole essay on this.

1:25.2

I will quote from it,

1:30.5

yes, Eve is Eve, Evie, Eve?

1:34.3

Eve is pertly streamlined.

1:37.3

Eve's eyes literally sparkle and dance.

1:38.8

Eve giggles for heaven's sake.

1:40.7

Eve is kick-ass strong and powerful.

1:42.6

Eve is performing femme.

1:45.6

While E is rugged and protective and shy and loyal.

1:51.4

Wally is a sensitive little thing held together by sheer will and rubber bands. Wally is performing butch. I believe this is the definitive answer. Okay. I'm just going to say.

1:58.4

I believe that robots can perform gender.

2:01.0

Right.

2:01.3

They can perform gender, but they cannot have a gender.

2:04.8

Exactly.

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