download on iTunes Step into a smoky dive bar w/ Billy Ray Stupendous and me in th days before smoking was banned on Earth, as we are joined by Ilya th disco cosmonaut to talk bout everything related to th night except Batman.  What makes staying out until th sun comes up feel good ?  What's in a cemetery ?  What goes on in Berghain, Berlin's most secretive club ?  Do gays age differently than str8s ?  What's th diff between tolerance and acceptance ?  What's th over-under on th number of years more it'll take to accomplish world peace ?  And who committed a hate crime against th Shoney Bear ?  Mysteries upon mysteries, my friend Table of contents: 00:00  "Freaks Come Out @ Night" performed by Whodini 04:35  "... Answer every question with a question" | intro Ilya | 7-hour time diff 05:49  What's the weirdest thing you've seen in the middle of the night? | Ilya's story (circa 2007) Pt 1 09:26  Why cemeteries @ night are boring 11:16  Popular themes of th night | Ilya's story Pt 2 | rampant sexism by MZA | vocabulary lesson by Ilya 15:19  Ilya's story Pt 3 | class consciousness after death | Oscar Wilde's grave 19:01  Th storytelling urge | visual gags on podcasts | The Iron Rose (Jean Rollin 1973) 22:13  Slightly late bloomers | th first time Ilya got a hangover 27:21  Shoutout to Natalie's discreet hurling style | rug-peeing asshole 29:00  Billy & th Shoney Bear  31:44  Chain-restaurant-dining barbarians | shoutout to P.F. Chang's in Ridgeland, MS 36:55  MZA has never seen anything weird @ night | flippy rat mugger 39:19  Th attractiveness of low visibility | porn in HD | th forbidden and eternal | one night in NOLA w/ Ilya & Dimi 47:02  An artificial natural ending | th Wizard of Oz moment | theft of time vs reclamation of time 54:42  Deepest darkest fears | Do you find that you use the Internet differently in the middle of the night? 56:35  Movie soundtracks, imaginary & non-imaginary | Quentin Tarantino and Tumblr are lying, cheating dickheads 1:00:47  Guardians of th Galaxy (James Gunn 2014) & nostalgic sci-fi 1:04:16  Phones for lighters | Berghain's (anti)culture of unphotographed debauchery | We lost Ilya 1:12:33  Bad nights | Ilya's embarrassing night Pt 1 | on th upside of getting beaten up 1:16:27  Exploiting yr shitty nights for stories | Ilya's embarrassing night Pt 2: party @ ex-girlfriend's 1:30:08  Ilya's embarrassing night Pt 3: th angelic Dane 1:37:42  Taming th ego vs clinging to self 1:43:00  Being open or not open to th night's offerings | shortcuts based on experience | aging clubgoers 1:45:49  Experience, perversion, th sex drive, & watching Aladdin (Ron Clements & John Musker 1992) 1:48:21  Aging in th gay community | th gay nuclear family | not settling down 1:51:42  Gay rights, gay marriage, & th play for accessibility | legal strategies | NOLA prostitutes' "unnatural acts" | "taxation without representation" 2:01:27  Th overrepresentation of gays in night culture | alternative strategies for gay rights | How can you criticize somebody else's strategy if you don't have one of yr own ? 2:07:11  Perceiving similarity vs perceiving difference | non-legal strategies 2:09:24  Overhauling th education system | infiltrating kindergartens @ night 2:12:19  Tolerance vs acceptance vs embracing vs penetration | de facto segregation | acknowledging gay people's importance 2:18:42  Not being optimistic bout world peace 2:24:03  Bonus Track: elevator jazz