We are joined this week by writer and actress Mara Wilson to discuss how acting classes can function like cults and why. Mara reveals her personal Alison Mack story and talks about how we can protect child actors on sets. Then she tells us about her personal isolation tank experience and we try to figure out hacks for making isolation tank like experiences at home. At the end of the episode we have a very bittersweet important announcement about the show.

Notes:

Mara's Substack https://mara.substack.com/

Mara's Twitter https://twitter.com/MaraWilson

Mara's book, "Where Am I Now?"

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/318758/where-am-i-now-by-mara-wilson/

The Landis Twilight Zone lawsuit

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-05-29-mn-2189-story.html

...and how he broke child labor laws

https://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/30/us/assistant-on-fatal-film-says-he-didn-t-want-children-in-scene.html

Franco's acting school

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/james-franco-acting-school-lawsuit-894571/

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Emily is off this week, but Tess and Molly are taking your night calls about Joseph Smith, sphinx monuments, and the devil's tritone! First it's a night call about the Devil's Note, which some listeners liked and others did not at all. Then an email about Joseph Smith's head on the body of a Sphinx, and whether the "Salamander Letter" is a forgery (yes.) Molly waxes philosophical on the newest Housewives franchise: Salt Lake City, and reveals some behind the scenes info she got about why this series is so bonkers. Then it's prophetic dreams - who had them and why? Are they real, or self-fulfilling prophecies? What are our recurring dreams and nightmares? All this and women who marry their step-grandfathers, on an all new Night Call!

NOTES

Play around with creepy musical intervals on this handy virtual piano

https://www.musicca.com/piano

"Happy Birthday" copyright

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/02/happy-birthday-is-public-domain-former-owner-warnerchapell-to-pay-14m/

History of "Happy Birthday" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Birthday_to_You

Joseph Smith sphinx https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/11817

Salamander letter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salamander_letter

Cafeteria Cathoicism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cafeteria_Catholicism

Mary Crosby https://www.bravotv.com/people/mary-cosby

Clay Higgins dream tweet

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/louisiana-clay-becca-higgins-premotion-guns_n_5f93691bc5b6a2e1fb615ae1

Abe Lincoln's dream https://rogerjnorton.com/Lincoln46.html

Did MLK know he would be assassinated?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43545620

Ariana Lenarsky twitter https://twitter.com/aardvarsk

Titanic prophetic dream https://wormstedt.com/GeorgeBehe/page9.htm

The Test Dream https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Test_Dream

More dreams! Dreams galore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dreams

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November is Dreams Month at Night Call, and we're kicking it off with some incredible dream calls and emails from listeners. Of course there are also more pyramids and architecture talk too. This time it’s Brasilia - the faded poppy mid-century utopia that is Brazil’s capital, and The Summum Pyramid - the mummification temple from 70s religion Summum in Salt Lake City, Utah. Would we get mummified and more importantly, would we let Summum do it? But also: a viral Tik Tok about the Christian conspiracy that the COVID vaccine will implant a chip in your body that is actually the Mark Of The Beast (this makes it sound cooler than it is). And our first in depth missive from dreamland - a listener who believes they heard a weird frequency online that led them to have an experience they interpreted as demonic possession. We interpret their experience and talk about the power of frequencies and music to influence or induce emotional states. All this and Exploding Head Syndrome, on an all new Night Call!

Notes:

Dramatic MAGA tiktok

https://twitter.com/AndreaRussett/status/1323878382975676417

Background on on vaccine/mark of the beast conspiracies

https://www.crosswalk.com/church/pastors-or-leadership/ask-roger/is-the-covid-19-vaccine-the-mark-of-the-beast.html

Do not work order for Songbird

https://deadline.com/2020/07/sag-aftra-songbird-do-not-work-order-los-angeles-shoot-pandemic-1202976458/

Valley of the Dawn/Dawn Valley

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/2018/09/religion-psychic-medium-extraterrestrial-sunrise-dawn-valley-brasilia-brazil/

Dawn Valley wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vale_do_Amanhecer

Summum Pyramid https://www.summum.us/pyramid/

Exploding head syndrome

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150409-i-have-exploding-head-syndrome

More on EHS https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.livescience.com/amp/45532-exploding-head-syndrome-sleep-disorder.html

Molly on brain zaps at MTV

http://www.mtv.com/news/2742210/lexapro-kanye-me-molly-lambert-on-the-ghosts-of-ssris/

Explore dot org https://explore.org/livecams

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This week we delve into the OTHER cult Mark Vicente was a member of: Ramtha! Learn how putting a tiny paper pyramid on your head might make you channel an ancient racist spirit. Then it’s even more pyramid pals and a general spooky season and Halloween roundup.

Notes

Ramtha

More Ramtha

Salma Hayek rude at lunch

Faith Chapel Christian Center

AT&T City Center

Ave Maria Grotto

Grotto Photos

Flinstone House

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We’re joined by Lazor Wulf writer Nikki Mayard to wrap up The Vow with a nylon sash. Why did the editors save all the men’s rights stuff for the 8th episode? Did seeing Keith Raniere go full Frank TJ Mackey explain how people got so deep into this cult? Did he also maybe murder a bunch of women? Who is the best Vow character: Mark, Sarah, Catherine or Nippy? How privileged do you have to be to get into this kind of group? Will season 2 explain it all or just make everyone more frustrated? Then it’s another edition of Pyramid Pals with a great call and email about our fave buildings. What’s the deal with ancient mounds? What is the best corporate pyramid, and should we save corporate pyramids from the wrecking ball or let them be lost to time? All this and more on a new Night Call!

Notes:

Nikki Mayard's TwitterNikki's InstagramDid Keith Raniere poison his girlfriends?Lazor Wulf on HBOMaxCahokia Mounds CLUI pyramids listCenter of the World pyramid& moreSteelcase/Switch pyramid& walkthroughApex pyramid

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This week on Night Call we have Sadie Dupuis aka Sad13 as our guest! But first it's an update to Pyramid Pals with a call about a recently demolished but also fairly recently built glass walled pyramid for a pharmaceutical company. Why wouldn't Amazon want to operate out of this futuristic pyramid building out of a dystopian movie, too on the nose? Then we're joined by Sadie to discuss haunted portraits, haunted studios in Texas, and isolation tanks (probably also haunted).

Notes:

Richardsonian Romanesque

Massachusetts pyramid pic

MA pyramid demo video

Miles Klee on 12' skeletons

Ryan White

Stew Leonard's animatronics

Haunted Painting

Sadie's haunted painting inspo

Carradine doppelganger

No music for ICE campaign

Sonic Ranch

Tornillo hauntings

Sadie's website DOT HORSE

Sadie's twitter

Sadie's 'gram

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Emily is back with tales from the Pyramids of Wyoming and Nevada: the railroad ghost town of the Ames Monument, and driving past the current ghost town of Las Vegas glimpsing the Luxor Pyramid after whispers that MGM plans to blow it up soon. Then it's all calls and emails, starting with another call about the New Age to Q Anon phenomenon (Q Age). After that a listener in Australia calls in to talk about climate change around the globe, and why AQI (Air Quality Index) sites are all over the place. A night email about a public art project involving payphones leads to a pleasant discovery about its purpose. We finish up with time travel paradoxes, real and created by people on drugs, to talk about Twelve Monkeys and what you'd warn people about if you travelled back to January 2020.

Notes

Ames Monument

Blowing up the Luxor

"Conspirituality"

Purple Air

Futel phones

Cicada 3301

Futel site

The Call Center

Marina Abramovic Microsoft ad

Time travel paradox

"Sinbad's Shazaam"

Evil eye pendants

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