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It's 11.10 p.m. at a book publishing party, circa 1987 in New York City.

And you're listening to Night Call.

Thank you. city and you're listening to Night Call. Hello and welcome to Night Call podcast for your strange days and lonely nights. My name is Emily Oshita. I am here in New York, and with me on the other end of the line is Molly Lambert and Tess Lynch. Hello. Hello. Mo-mo. That's what I was just going to say. Let's have a minute for Mo Mo Mo Mo.

Just a Mo Mo Moe minute.

A Mo Mo Moe, a meme for Mo Mo Mo.

If you haven't heard about the Mo Mo Moe Challenge, Molly and Emily and I just kind of talked about it, there was this hoax going around that there's this Japanese sculpture that is called Motherbird, and it looks, it's like a chicken lady.

It's a hearty.

It's like a breasted bird lady with a terrifying face.

It looks like a Junji Ito-Ito slash Tim Burton, like Circa Beetlejuice creation.

It looks specifically like the bird face people in Beetlejuice.

Yes.

It's like a woman with a bird face who has like crazy bulging out eyes and like a mouth that's just kind of a straight line and a V.

And it's scary.

It's super scary.

Yeah.

But what exactly happened?

I have questions about Momo. What happened is

that somehow, I don't know how it started, but this meme, essentially it's a meme, there was like,

people started hearing that Mo Mo Mo was appearing in YouTube videos in the middle of YouTube

videos aimed at children and telling children, like in the middle of like a Peppa

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