Night is for the Freaks (with Samantha Irby)

Explicit content warning

02/05/21 • 77 min

Comedian and writer Samantha Irby (Wow, No Thank You; Meaty; Shrill ) creates a Golden Record full of artifacts that she hopes the aliens will find life-changing. She also expresses her thoughts on what she would do with Henry Cavill in inappropriate public settings.

Sam's Artifacts

Gone Girl, the book not the movie (literature)
A live Tori Amos bootleg cassette (audio)
Mission: Impossible - Fallout (audio-visual)
Dlisted.com comment section from 2008 - (web archive)
The burn of an excessively carbonated gas station fountain soda (multisensory experience)

Original Voyager Artifact

Navajo Night Chant (audio)

"Do You Think...?" Listener Picks

Lenny Kravitz accidental dick exposure (audio-visual)
Plain rice with butter (food)
"Like a G6" by Far East Movement (audio)

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Sam's Artifacts

Gone Girl, the book not the movie (literature)
A live Tori Amos bootleg cassette (audio)
Mission: Impossible - Fallout (audio-visual)
Dlisted.com comment section from 2008 - (web archive)
The burn of an excessively carbonated gas station fountain soda (multisensory experience)

Original Voyager Artifact

Navajo Night Chant (audio)

"Do You Think...?" Listener Picks

Lenny Kravitz accidental dick exposure (audio-visual)
Plain rice with butter (food)
"Like a G6" by Far East Movement (audio)

Follow the show @keepingrecordspod

Advertise on Keeping Records via Gumball.fm

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Actor, writer, director and producer Zoe Lister-Jones (How it Ends, The Craft: Legacy, Life in Pieces) creates a Golden Record to educate aliens on human sexuality, food, and reckoning. Also about the power of diffuse lighting.

Zoe's Artifacts

Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville (audio)
Chicken (food)
Michaela Coel's I May Destroy You (audio-visual)
Mask Fashion (human ephemera)
Jennifer Lopez's lighting package (human ephemera)

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Comedian and podcaster Sydnee Washington (Hobby Hunter, Syd Can Cook) is prepared to show the aliens what they need to know about humans: the power of Rhianna, Earth's laziness, what we're willing to do for horniness, and Queen Latifah.

Sydnee's Artifacts