Hello, this is Josh Gondelman.

No, I'm sorry, I'm Josh Gondelman, and this is Make My Day, a comedy game show.

The world is a stressful place to exist, so every week I try to make it a little nicer for about half an hour.

I play a game with a guest or a team of guests who are guaranteed to win because they're the only contestants. Throughout our gameplay, I assign points based on how much their answers to my questions

cheer me up specifically. And then at the end, the winner or winners win a $100 each donation to the

charity or aid cause of their choice. And of course, as every week, we give pep talks to cheer up

the person or group or idea of our choice, because this isn't all about me.

It's just mostly about me.

My guests today are two of the smartest and most interesting writers and critics around, two of my favorite people to read and listen to.

Together they are two-thirds of the Night Call Colin Podcast. Please welcome to the show, Molly Lambert and Tess you. Together, they are two-thirds of the night call, Colin podcast. Please

welcome to the show, Molly Lambert and Test Litch. Hello. Hello. Hey, Josh. Thanks so much for

having us on. Thank you for being here. We're recording in different time zones. So it's like still

kind of day where you are. Yeah, it's, it's getting dark, though. I mean, now that we're in

in the evil dark season, which Molly loves. Oh, I love it. But I was going to say, it's just

barely still light. It'll, it'll be closing in any moment now. And Tess, are you less into the

darkness? How could you tell, Josh?

Yeah, no, I'm super not into it.

I feel maybe it was all the time I spent on the East Coast as a kid where you see the sunset and you're like, well, I guess that's it for the entire day.

It almost feels like, you know, the sky is your parent and it's like, go to bed.

No, it's not like go to bed.

It's like the night.

The night is starting.

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