K before we usher in her high school bestie for chats, Em is gonna get things started by giving props to our front line healthcare workers. In particular, all the ones who took time out to share their reactions to Em’s Instagram story where she asked what they wanted people to know about their day to day lives treating Covid patients. Their reactions were a very sobering read, so much so that Em has added them as a highlight on her Instagram profile. The good news is that they had a huge positive effect, with Em getting a heap of DM’s saying the stories helped encourage a number of people who were holding off on the vaccine, to finally book themselves in. That’s about the bulk of the intro, it’s purposely short because there’s so many hectic things Em and Michael need to work through together, and by hectic we mean quite possibly the most horrendo musical ever put on film. It’s called ‘Diana: The Musical’ and was meant to begin it’s run on Broadway on March 31 2020, which obviously didn’t happen because the Covid pandemic pretty much shut down, not only Broadway, but the entire planet. Thankfully someone at Netflix decided to assemble the entire cast, without an audience because they had to observe a bunch of Covid-19 safety protocols, and film the entire thing for us to witness in the comfort of our own homes via our Netflix accounts. However, it would seem actually watching ‘Diana: The Musical’ isn’t a comfortable experience AT ALL if Em and Michael’s reviews are anything to go by. Yes, Em did give it a 5 out of 5, but that isn’t because it’s worthy of Hamilton style accolades, after all, Em prefaces their chat by describing it as ‘...the most catastrophically awful, worse than Cats, horrific trainwreck that I’ve ever seen”. To back it up, Michael admits he hasn’t even finished the entire Musical yet, because “I felt like I had spent at least a decade and a half watching it, and then we clicked and we weren’t even at the halfway mark”. So don’t expect to be entertained like you would normally, you’ll instead be entertained with a perfect explain of who this musical is aimed at, that’s swiftly followed by a cavalcade of choice “highlights” (those are VERY BIG inverted commas around that word FYI). Plus Em and Michael will also deliver their favourite lyrical moments from the musical too, as a taster, those lyrics include things like, “better than a Guiness, better than a wank...” we’ll let Em and Michael explain the context and finish the lyrics inside. Then we slip into all the highlights from Adele gracing the front of both ‘Vogue’ and ‘British Vogue’, plus her absolutely heckers debut on Instagram Live. Once we’ve worked through all of that, we’ll get down to what inspired Em to start sharing all the stories from frontline healthcare workers this week, after Joel Creasey shared a video with Em from Home and Away star Sam Frost. The video had some troubling content that inspired Em to shoot off an innocent little tweet about how problematic the video was, unfortunately the media decided to take that tweet and accuse Em of being the only one who had a problem with it, accusing her of being jealous of Sam, as well as abrasive and unsupportive of women. Thankfully the onslaught was minimised after Em’s wonderful community of supporters stepped up and added their voices to clapback at the gossip columnists and journalists who were attempting to spin Em’s tweet into something it so clearly wasn’t. It also inspired Em to reach out to ICU doctors and nurses working away in Covid wards around the country to offer them a chance to share their experiences with those who might have been feeling reluctant to get the jab. To close everything out we successfully manage to wrap it all up with a beautiful callback to one of the perplexing moments of the MANY that appear in ‘Diana: The Musical’, because of course we do. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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