Elbow Squids and Bone Spikes
Night Call
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 564 Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2019
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
From the depths of the sea to the depth of the internet, Night Call is dishing out all the info about creepy squids, happy octopus cities, and energy drink conspiracy theories. PLUS the Night Call correction desk, and some personal TM experience. NIGHT CALL BOOK CLUB JULY BOOK ANNOUNCED! For access, CHECK OUT THE NIGHT CALL PATREON (https://www.patreon.com/NightCall) ! Support the show for as little as $1 a month! Call in to Night Call at 240-46-NIGHT Articles and media mentioned this episode: Article, LiveScience, "Ancient 'Loch Ness Monster' from Antarctica Breaks a Record for Body Size" (https://www.livescience.com/65707-loch-ness-monster-plesiosaur-antarctica.html) Article, Science Alert, "Biologists Have Discovered an Underwater Octopus City And They're Calling It Octlantis" (https://www.sciencealert.com/marine-biologists-discover-an-underwater-octopus-city-octlantis-jervis-bay-australia) Article, Gawker, "Crazy Lady Exposes Monster Energy Drinks as Satanic Conspiracy" (https://gawker.com/crazy-lady-exposes-monster-energy-drinks-as-satanic-con-1656799585) Article, BBC, "How modern life is transforming the human skeleton" (http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190610-how-modern-life-is-transforming-the-human-skeleton) Film, The Day of the Triffids (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055894/?ref_=nv_sr_2?ref_=nv_sr_2) Book, The Relaxation Response (https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780380006762) by Herbert Benson, MD Video, Elbow Squid (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJV5mH3YY70) "Night Call" by 4aStables (https://www.4astables.com/) . Music used is "Crap Transition" by Jesse Spillane (https://www.jessespillane.com/) . Additional sfx from freesound.org (https://freesound.org/) .
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.7 | It's 1141 p.m. in rural Pennsylvania, and you're listening to Night Call, a podcast for your strange days and lonely nights. |
| 0:30.8 | I'm Tess Lynch in Los Angeles, and with me I have. |
| 0:34.1 | Molly Lambert and in New York. |
| 0:36.5 | Emily Yoshita. |
| 0:38.1 | Guys, I want to start off with an apology. |
| 0:40.8 | Nightcall Apologies desk, top of show. |
| 0:44.2 | Apologies to the entire live science team, who I feel I have offended greatly and must come now, like, hanging my head in shame. |
| 0:54.9 | We got an email from a writer at Live Science. |
| 0:58.9 | Subject line, I'm so sad you called Live Science bullshit. |
| 1:02.4 | And I feel like I owe it to them to set the record straight on Live Science, or LS, as we call it. So I'm just going to read |
| 1:13.9 | a bit of it because it's a little long, but you'll get the point. I'm so sad you said |
| 1:19.8 | life science is a bullshit site, an aggregator and content farm. To be fair, the awful look of |
| 1:25.3 | the site and the ads easily obscure the actual content, |
| 1:28.3 | but to call out something as bullshit, you have to carefully consider what's under the surface. |
| 1:32.3 | So I don't want to blame you, but I feel like I have to explain. |
| 1:36.3 | Believe it or not, all stories on Ellis are original stories with original reporting and interviews. |
| 1:41.3 | It's widely syndicated to the point that some have called it the Associated Press of Science News. |
| 1:46.9 | I have a print story above fold in Washington Post that's actually an LS story, and it's widely read. |
| 1:52.5 | I get more reader emails, the majority of them school children, from my L.S. stories than my other pubs combined. |
| 1:59.0 | Do you wonder why the keywords turn up on other sites? |
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