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WM Live 2024-04-09 Dissatisfied Eclipse

·3 min
The episode 'WM Live 2024-04-09 Dissatisfied Eclipse' is a live audio stream featuring hosts WastedMemory and Dragonmere performing a series of improvised prank calls. The format consists of the hosts calling various hotel front desks, primarily under the guise of dissatisfied guests. A unifying theme is the solar eclipse that occurred the previous day, which callers bizarrely blame for a range of issues. These include being late for a reservation that predated the eclipse, experiencing anxiety from thinking about the eclipse, and demanding compensation for the darkness. The calls escalate in absurdity, with one caller threatening to use a taser and pepper spray on hotel staff and another insisting the hotel should have put down a tarp. Recurring jokes involve callers feigning ignorance about astronomy, asking if the moon is the sun at night or if an eclipse is like leap year. Other sketches deviate slightly, involving a person finding pills in a parking lot and taking them, or getting lost following bad directions from a mysterious woman named Judy. The tone is consistently comedic and chaotic, with the hosts breaking character occasionally to comment on the calls. The episode concludes with a call where a guest claims eye damage from looking at the eclipse out of a hotel window and attempts to hold the hotel liable.

As heard by us

A solar eclipse turns hotel billing into a warped customer-service maze of stuck feet, shifting numbers, and names spilling into the sign-off.

The episode makes a solar eclipse feel like a customer-service issue, then lets that premise keep slipping sideways. A late caller asks Anna if an eclipse delay means a penalty, and soon darkness is being treated as a reason a hotel bill might shrink.

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Why you'd press play

Press play when you want an eclipse, a hotel bill, and a safety hole to collide in one unruly stream.

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