Night Call (podcast)

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Night Call
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Presentation
Hosted by Molly Lambert, Tess Lynch, Emily Yoshida
Genre
  • call-in show
  • strange days
  • lonely nights
  • dystopian reality
LanguageEnglish
Updatesno
LengthVariable (~60 minutes)
Production
Audio formatPodcast
No. of episodes136
Publication
Original releaseFebruary 5, 2018 (2018-02-05) 
December 7, 2020 (2020-12-07)
Related
Website podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/night-call/id1342254154

Night Call was a weekly call-in show hosted by Molly Lambert, Tess Lynch, and Emily Yoshida. In addition to free weekly podcasts on the iHeartRadio platform, [1] Night Call hosted live shows on Twitch.tv [2] and in person, [3] and created book club themed episodes, movie club themed episodes, and monthly mixes for their Patreon supporters. [4]

Contents

Previous collaborations

The three first worked together on the Girls in Hoodies podcast at Grantland through 2014, [5] a podcast that "dared to challenge its listeners". [6]

Reception

Night Call held a 4.5-star rating on Apple Podcasts [7] and received positive reviews from outlets such as The Maine Campus, [8] TIME, [9] Pacific Standard, [10] Vulture.com, [11] and ELLE. [12]

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References

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  2. "nightcallpodcast - Twitch" via www.twitch.tv.
  3. "TONITE'S THE NITE LA!!". November 21, 2019.
  4. "Night Call is creating a podcast - Patreon".
  5. "Girls in Hoodies Podcast: The Final Episode". October 30, 2014.
  6. Lyon, Tyler (November 13, 2015). "Grantland's podcasts brought diverse perspective to those who might have missed it".
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