Hands up who wants more wang chat? Hope your hand goes up because we are about to deliver some whether you like it or not. Sorry, not actually sorry, we promise you’ll enjoy it, but first we need to talk about some other stuff. Like how would Em choose to describe this podcast to someone who’d never heard it before, her brilliant and on point description is where you’ll witness your very first dick mention, the rest are much later in the episode. To start out we need to acknowledge that Em and Michael were actually in the room, face to face for this recording. The dynamics are all different, they can see each other, it was later in the evening, some wines had been consumed, there was some low key spikiness in the air, and Em hadn’t done her usual level of research and prep beforehand. Did someone say loose? They sure did...HUZZAH! We have to talk through the options Michael presented Emsolators with for his appearance at The AACTA Awards in Sydney next week. A choice has been made, not everyone is happy, but there is talk of a Ru-veal (which, for those not across ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’, and all it’s abundant worldwide spin offs, is another way of saying a reveal is going to be made, except this one is branded around RuPaul’s name, kind of how ‘The Block’ changes everything to ‘block-o-clock’, ‘blocktacular’ and ‘block-OFF!’) so we will wait to see what happens on the big night and reveal all in next week's episode. There’s a brand new Covid variant that’s arrived in Sydney, this one comes with the rather ominous name of Omicron. Em and Michael are feeling like it’s a name for Transformer and a bunch of other things (promise none of them are wang related, that’s still to come) they also have lots of questions about who is it that decides the names of storms, cyclones, typhoons and diseases and their variants. Both Em and Michael are due to visit Sydney so they're on alert and low key worried that another lockdown is coming for the people of NSW. Then it’s on to the D, and in this case it’s owner, Saturday Night Live comedian and serial famous lady dater, Pete Davidson, who is currently front page gossip fodder for dating Kim Kardashian. Kanye is leaving it up to God to fix his broken marriage, Em has been deep diving the conspiracy theories around the pairing, and Michael wasn’t even really interested, but after doing his own teensy deep dive, he’s now all up in it’s grill too. He’s not up for Em’s conspiracy theories though. After the detour to wangville we need to talk about a rather distressing DM Em received from someone about Em sharing her ADHD diagnosis with her followers. There’s a full explain from Em on why she is so vocal about what she’s experiencing and how she shares her story to help other people. It's a sweaty chat but well worth the listen. Finally, inspired by the news of the passing of Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim, Michael reveals which of Stephen’s songs he hears, on loop, in his head, whenever he is writing for TV. That inspires a HEAP of Barbra Streisand singing from Michael which is easily Em’s favourite part of an Emsolation episode EVER. So grab your headphones, or pump up your smart speaker and never mention to Em what the synopsis is behind the movie ‘Sophie’s Choice’, that will make sense once you’ve listened we promise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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