Miley's Black Mirror and Revisiting S1m0ne
Night Call
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4.6 • 564 Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Moon farts, jellyfish bones, and op art abound. Night Call dives into this week in science. Plus the strange world of simulated people in pop culture and what this tells us about ourselves. NIGHT CALL BOOK CLUB BOOK ANNOUNCED! For the book and the episode, 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, Vice, "New Report Suggests ‘High Likelihood of Human Civilization Coming to an End’ in 2050" (https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/597kpd/new-report-suggests-high-likelihood-of-human-civilization-coming-to-an-end-in-2050) Article, LiveScience, "Why Does the Moon Keep Flashing Us"? (https://www.livescience.com/65612-gassy-moon-flashes.html) Article, Dwell, "Discover Florida's Mysterious Dome Home Before it Sinks into the Sea" (https://www.dwell.com/article/discover-floridas-mysterious-dome-home-before-it-sinks-into-the-sea-12a0e0a0) Film, Home Movie (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0275408/?ref_=nv_sr_4?ref_=nv_sr_4) Video, Swallowed Whole - a comb jelly praying on a comb jelly (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmoChWQ6xCk) Film, The Little Mermaid (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097757/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1) Article, The New York Times, "Dementia Stopped Peter Max From Painting. For Some, That Spelled a Lucrative Opportunity" (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/business/peter-max-dementia-cruise-ship-auctions.html) TV Series, Black Mirror, "Rachel, Jack, and Ashley Too" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9053874/?ref_=ttep_ep3) Song, "Head Like a Hole" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao-Sahfy7Hg) by Nine Inch Nails Song, "I'm on a Roll" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ihqbMicm_s) by Ashley O Film, S1m0ne (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0258153/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1) Film, Under the Silver Lake (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5691670/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1) Podcast, Who? Weekly (https://www.whoweekly.us/) TV Series, Westworld (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0475784/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) Film, Mulholland Drive (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166924/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) Actress IMDB, Rachel Roberts (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1212051/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1) Music Video, "Bitch Better Have My Money" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3eAMGXFw1o) by Rihanna Play, Pygmalion (https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781503290907) by George Bernard Shaw Hatsune Miku/Vocaloids (https://vocaloid.fandom.com/wiki/Hatsune_Miku) Film, The Truman Show (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120382/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1) Film, Godzilla: King of the Monsters (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3741700/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1) Film, Godzilla (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0831387/?ref_=nv_sr_2?ref_=nv_sr_2) (2014) Anime, Neon Genesis Evangelion (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112159/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1) Song, Yuji Koseki, "Mothra's Song" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=9lmZRRqF6wA) "Night Call" by 4aStables (https://www.4astables.com/) . Additional sfx from freesound.org (https://freesound.org/) .
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.1 | It's 10.15 p.m. |
| 0:08.8 | In a nuclear sea event, deep below the Pacific Ocean. |
| 0:13.0 | And you're listening to Night Call, a podcast for your strange days and lonely nights. |
| 0:34.0 | My name is Emily Yoshida. |
| 0:35.5 | I am in New York and with me, as always, on the other line. I have Molly Lambert and Tess Lynch. Hello. Hello. |
| 0:44.6 | What's up? Apparently the world or civilization is coming to an end by 2050. This is not on our news, but this is news to need us now. This is breaking news. |
| 0:58.1 | Breaking news. The end is in sight. Civilization will probably come to an end by 2050 because, like, |
| 1:05.5 | climate change. I plan to also come to an end in 2050, so all good. All good. It doesn't say definitively. It says |
| 1:13.3 | probably. This is a vice article. This is vice who's giving us this report. I will say I also haven't |
| 1:20.7 | read the article yet. I have just seen it tweeted a million times, but I'm speculating that it's about climate change refugees and stuff and how we will have used all the resources of the Earth at a certain point. |
| 1:36.4 | And then people will turn on each other as they have already been doing. |
| 1:41.5 | Now they were kind of starting to get some perspective dates of like worst case scenario |
| 1:46.2 | when everything's going to go to shit. |
| 1:49.1 | I'm sort of bummed out that I'm going to be in my 60s for it. |
| 1:53.5 | I kind of wish I was like a little more. |
| 1:57.0 | You were you a young person for the apocalypse? |
| 1:59.2 | No, old? |
| 1:59.9 | Older? |
| 2:00.2 | Just so that I could like outrun people and stuff. |
| 2:03.5 | Outrun the Revers. |
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