Did everyone hear nightlife impresario and Five Points Cafe owner Dave Meinert on KUOW’s The Conversation this week? He was talking about Pete Holmes’s not-at-all-planned-out plan to stagger the closing times of Seattle bars, and it was very interesting indeed.

One caller brought up the very astute point that because all the bars close at 2am, Seattle streets are basically deserted between the hours of 2:30am and dawn, which makes us all feel very sketched out when we are walking around in the wees. The caller compared the situation to NYC where the streets are peopled at all hours and so everyone feels a little safer. And mom, if you are reading this and wondering what good and productive things I’m doing between 2:30am and 6am, I’d like to point out that dog owners do not always make their own schedules.

Also, if you are curious about last calls in other cities, states, and countries, here is a list of last-call times around the planet.