107: Instagram Face/Off

The ladies are joined by Jia Tolentino, staff writer for the New Yorker and author of the essay collection “Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion” this week. First up we fetch the bolt cutters for our first impressions of the new Fiona Apple album. Plus, pandemic dreams! A scientific explanation for why people are having such weird dreams during self-isolation. Then we talk about "Instagram Face," which Jia wrote an incredible essay about. She also describes her experience meeting the Kardashians' plastic surgeon Dr. Ourian. Who has the most Instagram face? What will the beauty standards shift toward next? Can you facetune reality? We take a Night Call about Heidi Montag and recall the first phase of young people getting extreme plastic surgery. Then Tess, Molly and Emily take on another classic plastic surgery movie for Plastic Surgery April: John Woo's Face/Off! First time viewer Emily talks to seasoned Face/Off fans Tess and Molly about the operatic silliness of John Travolta and Nic Cage in this movie, the low-key sci-fi world it takes place in, and whose faces we would personally like to take off. More fun in the new world at Night Call!

Footnotes:
Jia's Book!
Fiona Apple's Feature in 1997 Spin "Girls"
Emily Nussbaum's Fiona Apple Profile
Rachel Handler's Fiona Apple Interview
And Rachel's Texts from Fiona
NY Times on Corona Dreams
And Nat Geo on 'rona Nightmares
How to Lucid Dream
Jia Tolentino on Instagram Face
Heidi Montag on her Plastic Surgery
Face/Off Trivia
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