Conspiracy Divas

Mary, Did You Know that Avril Lavigne has a clone?

Well, maybe not - but that's part of what we get into in this week's episode. We begin the episode by talking about our week - Michael just started rehearsal and Sean has been fighting this tonsils. We then move into a discussion on the Artemis II launch, before diving into some of our favorite conspiracy theories.

We wrap up the episode with our TITULAR Mary, Did You Know segment.

Follow the pod on Instagram and TikTok on @marydidyouknowpod and you can follow Michael on Instagram at @mikewachowiak and @michaelwachowiak on Tiktok, and Sean on Instagram & @seanzyryan and on TikTok at @seanzy_ryan.

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:04

Mary, did you know? Hello, and welcome to Mary. Did you know the podcast? Uh it's a beautiful day. We could tell the shareholder because we've been having some audio difficulties. Yeah. And we've re-recorded this section like four times. Like four times. We know when we're back, we're here, we're monitoring it. And I feel like I'm watching someone on life support. It literally I watch this thing, but I'm gonna hold my microphone in a very specific place as I can see it. Yeah, exactly. And we're gonna get a new cording right now for next week.

SPEAKER_00 0:54

But how are you? Um it's a gorgeous day. Um now it is.

SPEAKER_01 0:59

We're having spritzes. We're having spritzes.

SPEAKER_00 1:02

Um it's like 70 degrees and sunny right now, so it's gorgeous.

SPEAKER_01 1:06

And I started rehearsal this week. Yes, you did. And so um what's been interesting is I forgot how stressful it is going right from work to now it's worse for you because sometimes you were in the office, which is like a whole other level of craziness. But like so the other day it was our first rehearsal, and I was like not really prepared, like just like in terms of getting myself ready and I was like, Do you need me to make you a sandwich? And I was like, I'm actually okay, but I appreciate the like panic look. Um, I think I had a protein bar for dinner that day, um which was not exactly you know it's tough when you have like truly limited time.

SPEAKER_00 1:37

Yeah, like depending on when you work till it's like you could have a half hour before you have to leave, and it's like there's no time. There's no time.

SPEAKER_01 1:44

No, it's awful. So that was my that was my big thing this week. Um, and it's been easy so far. I mean, we just did like the read-through designer presentations, and then we did um it's been a while since I've done a play, and so it's different to not have to like immediately start music or immediately start like working on like choreography, so to have a little bit, I mean, you know, you you just did a play, yeah. You have a little bit more time um to actually work on things, right?

SPEAKER_00 2:06

So what are what are you starting with? Are you doing like tablework or yeah? We only I maybe this is a hot take. I don't love a lot of tablework.

SPEAKER_01 2:13

Like some people love to dig into it. I think it's rare in a musical that you even have a good enough script to do it. I remember when we did Marilee, we we had we had said, Oh, I wish we could have dug into this for at least a day, because the you know, sometimes the scripts are good enough to really talk about, but um most musicals the scripts are not. Um and also like musicals that where the scripts are good, often the score is hard. So you need to devote that time to learning the music and breaking that all down. So I just did a day, and even the way I do it, um, I've only ever done it really twice professionally, was when I did constellations and this. Um for constellations, we did a little bit more of it because we had to talk about all the different various scenarios and all that stuff.

SPEAKER_02 2:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:54

For this, I basically just like opened with questions about the characters and their interpersonal relationships. And then we just read the play again and stopped and started. Yeah. Which I kind of enjoyed. And then we were like, okay, let's take that scene again, let's read it. Also, the script's not that long, so you can do that. But yeah, I find that more I find that easier. Number one, it gives you as the actor an opportunity to just read the lines more. Yeah. And it's not like complete esoteric. I guess we did it for Hedwig too, now that I think about it. But again, another unique circumstance where a live it's basically just a monologue. It's a play.

SPEAKER_00 3:22

Yeah, like that's a play with music.

SPEAKER_01 3:23

It's a play with it's a play with music. So so I guess I guess we did it for that too. But even by tablework, it was Vanna, Brittany, and I sit in their gabbin. Like, which is great, but it wasn't even like we weren't like I often tablework stresses me out sometimes because I feel like people are looking to me to know everything. I know that that's not always the case. But I feel like sometimes if I that's when like the the inner saboteur comes in my ear and makes me feel like I did not prepared enough. Yeah. Um, is when stuff like that happens.

SPEAKER_00 3:51

I get that. But I feel like there's so much discovery that happens once you start staging things. That's why like I of course I like to do a little table tablework here and there, but like once we get things on their feet, that's when like the real magic happens, at least for me as a performer. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:07

We um uh when we were doing Hedwig, um Emma English, who was the stage manager, had said something to me and she said she noticed it during Marilee, but uh that was uh obviously a much larger musical, so she didn't really um but like I like to stage really fast. Like um I think we're staging the whole play, this play in like seven rehearsals. Oh wow um and not that we then need to run it until the end of time, but I just like that because ultimately I'm not gonna give you every single blocking, every single blocking move. We're gonna give the basic shell of it, and then you want time to be able to do it and live in it, and that's also how you memorize your lines. Absolutely. So and I think it was during during High Wake at the end of Headwake, she was like, you know, I realize that that's just how you do it. And I was like, but also I'm now getting into I've now directed enough things where I was like, I I guess that is how I do it. Yeah. Um, so yeah, so it's been good. We're we start staging tonight, actually. So I'm gonna start.

SPEAKER_00 4:57

Are you doing it in order?

SPEAKER_01 4:59

We are doing it in order, which I I don't always, I don't that's not something I I I personally need to do, but for this, it just makes sense. Okay, it makes sense from a calling actors perspective because people enter the apartment. So like some of the characters that don't show up until the latter half of the play, I'm like, okay, well, you get two days off.

SPEAKER_02 5:15

Right.

SPEAKER_01 5:15

Like I think that's just better. I think so too. It's I like to be respectful of people's times on making a schedule. I also don't believe I'm not calling someone at 9 p.m. Like, unless it's a necessity. Like the way I built the schedule is like, oh, well, we'll just review the two scenes we did tonight.

SPEAKER_00 5:29

Yeah. I feel like for um like the more people you need, it's better to do things slightly out of order if it means call everyone. Call everyone like dismiss them. Six and then let people go as the night goes on. Because you're right, no one wants to have their night and then be like, I have to be at rehearsal at 9 p.m.

SPEAKER_01 5:48

I know that's kind of and like I feel like you're not gonna get the best version of someone.

SPEAKER_00 5:50

No, so I just don't like I don't like to do that. And like I would rather be if I'm only gonna be used for an hour, I would rather be called at six and then be done at seven rather than be called at nine and then work till ten. Correct, correct. Yeah, that's just not um and we're but I feel like not to cut you off, but I feel like a lot of theaters are getting so much better with this because I think it's just become a much uh a bigger thing that not only actors can talk about, but like everyone on the production team and even the theater as well. It's like it's a conversation that people are finally having where it's like maybe I don't need to be here for four hours if I'm not doing anything.

SPEAKER_01 6:26

People are also I think like we used to not get rehearsal breakdowns. We used to just be like, here are the day here, you're here are your days off, otherwise you need to be here. And it's like, huh? I know that's not true. And sometimes it is, sometimes it is a piece where everyone's in the whole thing, but that's not normally how it is.

SPEAKER_00 6:41

Right, right. Um, but and I know it makes it a lot more work for the director to like you know go through and break it down. But but I kind of feel like there's a peace of mind to it as well.

SPEAKER_01 6:52

Like I don't feel like I've got my hands around it until I do that.

SPEAKER_00 6:57

Yeah, I like it's like time blocking for you as well. So you know, like I have to be done with this scene by this scene.

SPEAKER_01 7:03

It forces me to think about how much time I need for scenes, and that's also a skill that you get better at too, like um, of knowing how much time it's gonna take to block something or how much time you take to block something. Um, luckily, I'd not choreographing anything in this. Uh-huh. As I've been, I I I joked when we did Hedwig. There was no um accredited choreographer of Hedwig because I did the choreography. Um, and I I had some conversation at some point with Kelly about that of like, uh, like, do you want to be whatever? And I was like, no, because if you like the choreography, you'll just presume I did it. And if you hate the choreography, no one's listed. T. Which is really the way, the way, the way to go there, I think. But um, but yeah, how was how was your week?

SPEAKER_00 7:43

Um, my week was okay. I so I have been locking in finally because I have time to like go to the gym and you know, I have time to like meal prep and do all these things. Um and then probably like Tuesday or Wednesday, I woke up and just my my tonsils fucking I still have my tonsils. Which is crazy, but which is crazy. It is a it's fucked up.

SPEAKER_01 8:07

Like they never like they never you didn't have like I guess I don't know what prompts them to take it out. I guess maybe it's the first time kids have tonsillitis, maybe they take them out when they're when you're younger.

SPEAKER_00 8:17

So I was told that like, you know, unless you're getting strep like three or four times a year, you you are eligible to get them out. And like I would get strep and tonsillitis like two or three times a year. So I was just like under the cusp of it making sense, but I'm still like, take them out, like get get these shits out of me. I don't need them, I don't want them. All they do is cause me pain. And so, like, my tonsils are so they do is cause me pain as funny. It's true. Um, all my tonsils do, they're so sensitive. So anytime like any like bacteria gets in there, they just swell up, they're super painful, and then like my I have a sore throat. Luckily, I know when it's tonsillitis and when it's strep, because strep I always get a fever. Okay. Tonsillitis is like super easy to manage because I've had it a million fucking times in my life. But um, I really just gargle with salt water like 18 times a day and then just like rest, and it's usually better the next day. But it like takes me out for a day, and I'm just like, this is so fucking annoying. And you can tell what it is because you can look down there and see it. Yes, like that, those things are engorged. They're like swollen and red and like disgusting.

SPEAKER_01 9:31

Matt still has his, so I've I've I I really need to get mine out.

SPEAKER_00 9:34

Um, but the another reason why I've heard it's painful, and I also have been advised from ENTs not to get them out because they're like, Well, you're a singer, and if you get them out, it there is a chance that it may affect your singing voice. Yeah. And I'm like, uh, I mean, I I appreciate the sentiment, but I also have talked to other performers who have gotten theirs out, and they're like, honestly, it's made it better because there's more room, more air, like you can get through.

SPEAKER_01 10:05

You're you're also they say that the male voice doesn't stop developing um until like your mid-30s. So you're like, well, you're not there yet. But like, but I'm saying, like, you're damn right I'm not there yet. But I'm what I what I mean is like you're oh no, actually, I think I had this wrong. I think it's women's voice. It's from like opera. I think women's voices take longer. I think male voices are developed by like your mid-20s. We should look this up. The point of it is I understand maybe waiting if your voice was still developing. Like if you're if your singing voice was still developing, which is probably why they were like you've got your range, you've got what you've got, you've got your technique. Like, I feel like you would be fine. Yeah. We'll see. I mean because there are like there are trans performers that have like vocal surgeries. That's true. And like then, like it's obviously gonna augment how they sing, but that's what they're I think in some cases maybe what they're looking for. But um, that's like I mean, you just like you just you learn to sing. I don't know if it's if your your voice changes slightly, I feel like you just adapt to however. And like you said, maybe it changes in a positive way.

SPEAKER_00 10:59

Yeah, which would be nice. I mean, who doesn't want some more range?

SPEAKER_01 11:03

We'd love for your voice to change. Finally, Jesus, sick of hearing the one you got.

SPEAKER_00 11:08

Um, but but yeah, so that was my week. Um and then okay, I I think one of the shareholders recommended we talk about this. Um so this also happened this week. Um, the Artemis 2 launch. Okay, I'm gonna be so real.

SPEAKER_01 11:23

I did not know this was happening, so I need you to like explain to me like what was happening.

SPEAKER_00 11:27

Okay, so I also don't know too, too much about it, but I am so glad we have this platform to speak on. I have lots of opinions, so one of my favorite things is talking about things I have known nothing about. Anything about correct, correct. Um so they're sending people around the moon, they're not sending people to land on the moon, but they are sending people for astronauts like on a journey around they're orbiting the moon once and then coming home. And it's like a total of like a 10-day journey. Okay um and apparently we haven't sent anyone to the moon in over like 50 years. Um was the last time we went in like I went to the moon.

SPEAKER_01 12:09

I was just gonna say, as Chris, as Christy Carlson Romano told us. No, I think we may have sent. Well, no, I think that may be the last time we sent people. People, yeah. We've sent like Land Rovers and stuff. Right. But like respectfully, are they going to the moon? It's kind of like if I say like they're driving by. It's like if I say I've been to Atlanta, I've been to the airport. Which I mean, I mean, like, is it not the same thing?

SPEAKER_00 12:29

Like, again, I'm not trying to discredit the when they land, I want you to look them in the eye and say, you didn't go to the moon. You didn't go to the moon, bitch.

SPEAKER_01 12:36

I did see a tweet, which I don't know if it's true. I saw a tweet that said that the one bathroom aboard the Artemis about one toilet above I saw a tweet that said that the one toilet aboard the Artemis 2 was out of order.

SPEAKER_00 12:47

So they just shitting. Oh no. And it's just floating? That's crazy. But yeah, so they are on a journey. It launched earlier this week. Um, everything went super well. Also, a fun fact is um Moog here in Buffalo in East Aurora like did a lot of shit for this Artemis thing. Which is why it's like kind of cool locally that you know we um locally locals. Um, and my boss, her husband, is like a program director for aerospace something or other at Mogue. And so he's been like on the news all week because I guess their department did again did a lot of shit for this spacecraft. So that's kind of exciting, and it's just kind of cool knowing that you know Buffalo is the reason that Artemis is sky high.

SPEAKER_01 13:41

Sky high. And again, I don't want to discredit them. I just feel like we can't say that we're going to the moon if we're not like landing on the moon. Like, is that shady?

SPEAKER_00 13:51

I mean, I feel like you're gonna make a lot of people mad with that, with that take.

SPEAKER_01 13:56

Matt's godparents like work for NASA. Oh, really? Yeah. So he he has spent a lot of time um in I think maybe the place in Florida.

unknown 14:06

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 14:06

What's the what's the one that's down there? Is that Cape Canaveral? Maybe I could also be making, I could be wrong about all the I they work for NASA. I could be wrong about like where they where they work and what they did. I'm really speaking on space knowing nothing. Listen, it's okay. I will say, have you ever seen the movie Um First Man? I don't think I have. With Ryan Gosling. Highly recommend. He's that man loves a space movie. So he plays, um, I was about to say Louis Armstrong. He plays, is it Lance Armstrong who went to space? So say Louis Armstrong, and he's just like, I'm well, I was about to do a Louis Armstrong, and I I stopped myself. I stopped myself. Probably for the best. Um he he uh it's about him going to space. And so it's like the it's all about like the training of it. It's by uh Damien Chazelle who did Whiplash and La La Land. Um made the movie. And so it's it's people got mad because it like it it there was all this stuff saying it was like anti-American. It's not anti-American, it's basically just about like the kind of the trauma that we put these people through in this thing that like they didn't know any anything about. So the movie's very cool because like when they go up to space, it's like it's not the majesticness of space, it's like the little tiny thing he's in that's shaking and like how panicked he is, like when they get to space. Um interesting, and then the moment when they're finally on the moon, they like open up the hatch door, and it's like maybe three minutes of uninterrupted silence. Oh shit. Because it's like what it would sound like, and it was very, very cool. Um, very, very cool. All I also remember from that film is um Claire Four, like from the crown. Um, she plays uh whatever Mrs. Armstrong's name is, and like you know, some people are not great at accents, and she's British and she's doing an American accent, but she's kind of doing like a Catherine Hepburn, like a transatlantic accent. Oh no. Like it's a scene where she's yelling at someone and she's like, You're all a bunch of boys, and I'm like, okay, that is not a real way that anyone speaks, even in like, you know, the 60s. Uh-huh. Um, but I highly recommend um First Man. I feel like I feel I feel like you would you would uh enjoy it. I tried to watch it the other day. I think you have to like buy it right now, which is really annoying, but um, I recommend you stream it if you can, because it's very good.

SPEAKER_00 16:18

Okay, very cool. Um, you know who also is actually very good at accents, which I had no idea. Um, are you watching The Pit?

SPEAKER_01 16:26

Yes, I am not as behind as I was last time when you asked me this. I have what I think I'm maybe only like three episodes behind now. Okay, you know who is not American? Um, wait, yes, the little the little Twinkie boy.

SPEAKER_00 16:37

Yeah, yes Whitaker.

SPEAKER_01 16:39

Is he Australian?

SPEAKER_00 16:39

He's British. That's crazy. He's British, and I had no idea. His accent is so good.

SPEAKER_01 16:45

That's wow, I'm kind of shocked. Did you also see that um they announced that what's her one of them is leaving for season three? Um is it Santos because she's all over Broadway now? No, no, no, no. I think like her and the guy who plays, I'm so bad at people's names, the guy that plays like the drug addict. Langdon? No, he's also on Broadway right now. I'm saying like they're doing Broadway on their on like their off time. Um no, it's the girl who plays um the only way I can describe her is she's the one that like has like they found out has like the TikTok where she helps people. Like she like gives medical advice. Javati? Yeah. She's not gonna be on season season three. Why? They said it's they said it's just like who is they? Variety.com. They them, they they them. Yeah, it was like a Hollywood reporter. It was like some you know, trade site. Yeah, they like announced that she's not gonna be.

SPEAKER_00 17:33

So they already know, like, are they filming?

SPEAKER_01 17:35

No, but I think I think they're like doing contracts and stuff now for for for the next season because they're gonna be.

SPEAKER_00 17:40

I wonder why she's leaving.

SPEAKER_01 17:41

It's weird. They basically were like, well, interns leave all the time, blah blah blah blah. It's a it's a teaching hospital. I saw I saw a tweet that were like Grace Asm is a teaching hospital, nobody ever leaves. They only you only leave Ciala Grace in a body bag. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:52

Um, but yeah, I was disappointed to read that because I I I like her. I mean, I like her too, but her whole character is basically like she doesn't want to be there, she wants to do something else. So it makes sense for them to write her off.

SPEAKER_01 18:05

I also saw an interview with um the one that plays again. I am so bad at these people's names. I know Robbie. Um, that's the name I remember. Um uh the woman who um she's the one that had the ankle monitor on season one. Uh yes. She's like secretly kind of old. Is she? I saw an interview with her and she's like, yeah, you know, that was maybe like 10 years ago. I was in like my 30s. Like she just looks great. I just like didn't think she was like that old. Yeah. Um I guess she's not old. She just is. I thought she was like in her twenties. Oh, okay. It's like I guess like what I thought.

SPEAKER_00 18:35

Well, I no. I figured she was in her I thought she was in her 30s, which you're telling me she's in her 40s. That's what that's the way she made it sound. Wow.

SPEAKER_01 18:44

Um, but yeah, I I need to I could see that I need to catch up on the season.

SPEAKER_00 18:48

It's such a good show. It is a great show.

SPEAKER_01 18:50

I'm just I'm just like, you know, you slip, you slip behind, and there's so many episodes, and I'm like, I need to people are saying that about this podcast. You know what? People are saying that about this podcast. We're really in the pit of podcasts. We really are. Yeah, really just dealing with trauma, trauma and um baby Jane Dow. Baby Jane Dow. Okay, can we also discuss that woman's accent? I'm obsessed with it. I am, but no notes. I am, but do we feel it wasn't that strong in in the first season and it's escalated in season two? It absolutely has, but you know what? I it I take it as a win. Correct. I guess there's a drama they they are saying. Um there's she's having to figure out if she wants if that if she wants to go leading actress in a drama for season two, because like the only person who went lead season one was was uh Noah, Noah Wiley, who plays Robbie. And I actually could support a world where he's the only lead and the rest of them are all supporting, yeah, but there's so many supporting women that I think I think they're trying to convince her, like, you'll still get nominated if you go to lead, and then we can like get some of these other people dominated.

SPEAKER_00 19:52

So something I'll be interested in.

SPEAKER_01 19:54

Tells me though they'll try it. That's what they did with um with Iowa Deborah and the bear. She was she was supporting season one and she won, but then they were like, she is the leading actress of the of the of the thing, and then you put her in lead, and then the other people get to get nominated. Same thing happened with Sarah Snookins' succession. Like sometimes the characters just elevate to another level. Yeah. But yeah, that accent is crazy in season one. I love it. Baby Jang Dao, baby jank dao. I'm so good. I'm I'm bad I'm bad at accents. And with that, we'll take a look at it. We're gonna take a break.

SPEAKER_00 20:37

And we're back. Okay, so now we are going to take another shareholder suggestion for this next segment.

SPEAKER_01 20:45

Oh, I guess we should shout out the the Artemis actually was also a shareholder suggestion. Um I think we said that. Oh, well, well, I want to shout out Amy. It was Amy's. Yes. So thank you.

SPEAKER_00 20:56

Thank you, Amy.

SPEAKER_01 20:57

Um, and yeah, the next one is courtesy of I believe Lacey.

SPEAKER_00 21:03

Yes. So we are going to talk about our favorite conspiracy theories. There are several out and about in the world. Um, and we haven't discussed what we're gonna talk about. I know. I want I have mine.

SPEAKER_01 21:16

I wonder if we pick some of like some some of the things.

SPEAKER_00 21:19

I have two that I really like. I have three, but I have, but I feel like we might have end up having an overlap. I'll let I'll let you go first. Okay, so again, this is kind of topical, but there's a conspiracy theory that we actually never landed on the moon. And you know, I kind of believe it.

SPEAKER_01 21:34

I definitely think that there's merit to it that like we possibly I just feel do you know that they made a whole movie about this? Wait, yes, with Scarlett Johansson and Janning Tatum and Sun Apple.

SPEAKER_00 21:45

Yeah, yeah, which listen, I why why haven't we sent anyone in the past fifty years to land on the moon? And did we send anybody?

SPEAKER_01 21:52

Yeah. I don't think uh listen. There's a whole thing, there's a whole like concoction of it. It was like CBS studios, yes, and that it was like a whole Whole like stage thing or and I think part of the I think what I imagine part of that rumor comes from is what I've I feel like there's a legend that like in case it failed they did have a set ready. That's it. So it seems like maybe they were going to lie, but they didn't have to. Sort of the way I feel like it sort of goes.

SPEAKER_00 22:18

Well, who's to say really? Um and how funny would that be if you know it is true and we haven't landed on the moon and we're still not landing on the moon.

SPEAKER_01 22:28

And we're still just circling it.

SPEAKER_00 22:30

We're just driving by. We're just doing laps around around the moon. Listen, um I think it's I think it's a good conspiracy theory because it's a classic. It's a classic. It's a classic, and I feel like there's I'm sure there's a way to tell, but some could say it's the like original conspiracy theory in a way.

SPEAKER_01 22:50

Yeah. Like I feel like it's like one you hear all the time, that and not 9-11, which isn't not on my list, but is another one that you know pops up. Steel beams. Um not steel beams. That's Christine Neppersall about it, or Mary and Coltiard. Both both uh both both are being 9-11 truthers. Um okay, I'm gonna go next. I have that Avril Levine is a clone. Uh okay, that's my other one. Okay, good. Okay, good. So okay, I'm I'm glad that I have that I have another one then. So speak on Avril Levine then.

SPEAKER_00 23:18

So there's a theory that Avril Levine killed herself like 20 years ago, like a long time ago. Um, and she has been replaced with a doppelganger to like keep her image alive, and like now she's like still making music and on tour? On tour, and people think that's not her. But people have pointed out, but like it does like she does look different. She does, she does. There's so much evidence against this imposter against Avril. Yeah. That I feel like there is a lot of merit to that one. There is. Listen, I love a good conspiracy theory just because it's so fun to be like especially ones that don't like harm anyone.

SPEAKER_01 23:57

Correct. I have two more. Um, the first one is this is sort of like an internet one, but it's like that Leah Michelle can't read. Yep. Which like I do this one I threw in here because I don't think it's real. I just think it's funny.

SPEAKER_00 24:09

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 24:10

Because like it's such an online joke, and like she like I love all the things being like, well, I was on set with her, but I never saw her read a script. But it's like you really don't read a script, like you memorize your lines and when you show up. Right. But I just love the idea that she doesn't know how to read.

SPEAKER_00 24:25

It's that it's so funny. It's so funny and just so silly. Because again, this is one that you know it doesn't really harm her because she can wake up one day if she wants to disprove this conspiracy theory and be like, the cat is blue.

SPEAKER_01 24:38

But also, she kind of she kind of can't though, because people are just gonna end up saying that like she like told it by me. Like, that's I think what's so funny about the reading one is there actively is no way to prove it. Because any like if if they give her like you know a random piece of paper, the someone's gonna say, Well, they she knew it beforehand. Like, yeah, that's why I think it's funny. There's no real way to tell that she that she doesn't know how to read. Yeah. And also, like, she's leaned into it recently, like she has, like, she has. There was something she was like scroll, like it was at a TikTok where she goes, like, can't wait to have Jonathan read these comments to me later, or something, like, which is very fun.

SPEAKER_00 25:16

That is funny, but there's no way to know. I think there's an art to like I guess leaning into the joke, and she did that well. She has to do it. There's other moments and other celebrities I can't think of right now, but like you've seen it where you know there's an online joke, and then the celebrity that it's about like mentions it, and it's like, oh, see, now it's not funny anymore.

SPEAKER_01 25:38

I actually think she didn't do a terrible job at this, but there are people that when all the whole like Kamala is brat coconut stuff, they were like, She's allowed one joke. It's like I feel like that happens with politicians a lot, where it's like, you're allowed one referential joke about what people are saying about you online, but I don't want to see it to be, I don't want your campaign to do an ad about it. I don't want like because that's where it starts to get cringy.

SPEAKER_00 25:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:58

That's where it starts to get and like she's she's balanced that that well. There's a um, there's a a thing that Leah Michelle and Jonathan Groff just did, which was some like uh, you know, you know, all these sites have like, you know, stars petting puppies and stars doing this or whatever. And it was the two of them in like a in like a classroom, and um, they made some joke about like, would you like to prove that you can that you can read and like hand her a book? And Jonathan Groff like swats it down and he's like, keep keep the mystery alive. Just like don't also like this is my thing about Leah Michelle, because I I hear all the stuff that has been said and all the stuff that was said about her on the side of Glee, and I do believe that it's probably true. The thing I can't get past with her is that every single human who meets Jonathan Groff says that he is the nicest person in the world, and I find it hard to reconcile them being so close if she's a total cunt. Right, right. She hasn't been a cunt to people, yes, but I find it hard to reconcile that just because it feels like he wouldn't put up with that sort of shit.

SPEAKER_00 26:58

Do you know what I mean? Right. I agree with that, and goddamn, the bitch can sing.

SPEAKER_01 27:02

I mean she can really sing. I I have been um there's been this like thing on Broadway this season where they're like, what if we made you wait months for the cast album? Like, what the fuck are we doing? Um but I'm very excited because I chess is not a show that anyone should really have to watch, but the music is really good, and so I'm excited to get to listen to the chess cast album and uh hear her singing those songs because she does sing the fuck out of them. Yeah, she's so good. And I think she's finally gonna get nominated for that Tony. Not even really for chess, because I've heard that she's fine. I think it's a situation where they're like, hey, you were really good in funny girl, and that show only ended up making money because you did it. I feel like I feel like it's gonna be like a like a like a like a thank you for that. Um, even though she didn't. Wait, this is a total tangent as well, but I'll get into my last one. Did you see the Instagram reel that Laura Bonanti posted? People got so mad at her, but she ended up taking it down. It was so funny. It's her on a plane, and she's like, I have to tell you a story. She's like, still on the plane. She goes, I'm on a plane right now with predominantly like a theater group. It's a group of like 60 kids that are going to a theater conference. She goes, and I she goes, and they didn't seem to have any idea who I was. She goes, and for some reason today, I couldn't stand that. She goes, so I walked back and I said, Hi, are you guys like here for like you know, I heard you're a theater group, and they were like, Yeah. And she was like, I do theater, and the 16-year-old boy with a shawl and a beret like looks at her directly and is like, cool. I was like, damn. She wanted to say the F slur so slur and her so so so slur is what is what I just said. And her caption just said, Oh, I guess they weren't around for the 2008 Tony Awards. That's kind of iconic. I thought it was funny. I think that's funny. And then when she took it down, she posted another video and she was like, Guys, I am making fun of myself. Like, I'm not like I should be known. She goes, I thought I did a pompous thing and I was treated correctly. Yeah, like she goes, That's why it was funny. And I'm like, no one has any sense of humor online anymore.

SPEAKER_00 29:00

I know, and see, this is what pisses me off. Like, why'd she take it down?

SPEAKER_01 29:03

I think I think because it found its way to like the wrong side of the internet, and she was and then also with her, it always gets weird because she plays Melania on Colbert, and so then I'm sure she was getting like weird, like right-wing shit, and she was probably like, Let's wrap this up. Yeah, uh, that's a shame. I think she's funny. Oh, she's incredible. I have one last one. Um, you know who Ronan Farrow is? Yes. We saw him in P Town. Yes, we did. Remember, we saw it. Well, he looked busy. Um the I like the conspiracy theory that Woody Allen is not his father. Because you look at Woody Allen, yes, not look like Woody Allen, yes, the conspiracy theory is that Frank Sinatra is his father. Yes, and mama, that is Frank Sinatra's father. We talked about this in P Time, I think. It's the same face.

SPEAKER_00 29:45

Yeah.

unknown 29:45

Like, what do you mean?

SPEAKER_00 29:47

Like, it's shocking.

SPEAKER_01 29:47

It's shocking. And also, Woody Allen looks like a foot. Like, damn. Well, he's a sexual predator, so but it's like he looks like a foot, and like Mia Farrow is pretty, but Mia Farrow doesn't look like Ronan Farrow. So it's like, where is the where is the thing? Also, I um my other f this is another tangent, Mia Farrow, his mother, she has an adopted daughter who is black, and one day on Twitter or Instagram, she posted a photo for her daughter's birthday of her and her daughter, but it just says it has her Google search in the top of the image, and it says Mia Farrow and her black daughter. Not that. Oh no. Like Diva. The fact that you Googled that and didn't just have a photo available of you and your daughter.

SPEAKER_00 30:38

Are there any other conspiracies you got? Um there was one that I was thinking of and I can't remember it now, but I don't really believe the like Illuminati shit. Oh, there was one that the one about like the Denver airport, how it's like the hub for the Illuminati.

SPEAKER_01 30:56

Wait, is this what do you remember when we did when we did Kat's birthday patch? I think it was Katie did like her top three conspiracy theories, and one of them was the Denver. The Denver Airport, yes. But it's like it's like the home base for the Illuminati.

SPEAKER_00 31:08

It's yes, there's like all this like this network of underground bunkers or something at the Denver Airport. The Denver Airport. The Illuminati runs or something. It's something like that. The other one she had was that like pigeons are just like uh are like spies. They're not real. Birds are not real, they're government drones. Which is basically giving hunker games. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:26

The jet the jaffer jam?

SPEAKER_00 31:28

See, that one I don't believe because No, because like science. Science, and also those bitches are so fucking loud at 5 a.m. outside my damn window now.

SPEAKER_01 31:36

And what do you and what do you mean that like a spy has to poop on my car?

SPEAKER_00 31:39

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 31:40

Like what like yeah speak speak on that government.

SPEAKER_00 31:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:45

So that one I don't believe.

SPEAKER_01 31:46

Yeah, and like there's no like then you get into like there's other ones. Like there are ones about like the fact that Stevie Wonder can see. That's one I've heard. I kind of love that. That's what I've that's what I've heard before, um, which is kind of crazy, but I do think it's a little bit. I kind of love that. I do think like just the concept. I hope it's true. Just the concept. There's also another one about that, about Helen Keller, which that one feels like a little like able to. Maybe not. I guess the Stevie Wonder one is able to us too, but yeah. They though those don't those don't feel great, but the for some reason the Stevie Wonder one does give me a chuckle. Um only only because it feels like so crazy. Like it's like, why would he like it? Also, because like he's so talented, it's not like his gimmick is that he's blind. Yeah, do you know what I mean? Like he's his he's very talented and happens to be a blind man. Correct. Um, yeah, I like was Googling conspiracy theories before when we decided we were gonna do this one. Don't do that. Um lots of stuff I didn't I didn't love on that.

SPEAKER_00 32:37

Yeah, um, but it's a conspiracy theories are a fine line because at some point I'm like, this is funny, and then it crosses the line, and I'm like, okay, this is like this is a lot.

SPEAKER_01 32:48

Yeah, and it and it starts to get into like we conspiracy theories very quickly go from like, ha ha ha, is Avril Lavine cloned to like Hillary Clinton runs a child sex ring. Like it goes very quickly to things like that. And that's where that's where I start to oh, that's not like that's not where it's like it also people start to use it as like even if you don't like that person, that doesn't mean that they're a sexual predator. Correct. Like so it gets into weird stuff like that where people start you can sense people like latching on to things. Yes. To use based on like a lot of political views. Political views are just like personal views about how you about how you you you feel about someone. Um yeah, I don't really I don't really have any any others. I don't really have one big one. Like all the ones that we elicit are fun. Yeah, like I don't have one that I personally believe that's like crazy. Correct. Which is I probably say that, and if I really sat down, maybe I maybe I'm lying.

SPEAKER_00 33:37

But I guess like uh people think climate change is a conspiracy theory, which is insane.

SPEAKER_01 33:43

Like which yeah, right? It's because it's like there's like science, mama. Right. Like you can you like we can we can point to it.

SPEAKER_00 33:49

Yeah, that's why I'm like, how is this a conspiracy theory or is this just fact?

SPEAKER_01 33:54

Also, some of that stuff starts to become like uh is it a conspiracy theory or are you just stupid? Like which I again, like that's where it starts to become. It's like, do you just not know how to read or is it a conspiracy theory? Or is like is your news the like that's like that's not how that's that's not how it works? Like just because you didn't read it doesn't mean it's not true. And so I feel like that's and that's what so not to get like too real, that's what gets so dangerous about like our like government and like politics and stuff, where it's like it's like it's not to say that like there's always the counter-arguments like well, you're gonna believe everything the government tells you. It's like, well, no, I'm just gonna like use my brain and like read things and decide if I think of that crazy thing that someone said. It's like when Trump said that they were eat there were people in Minnesota eating the dogs and cats. It's like that wasn't happening. Like it's like it's not like like they're eating the dog.

SPEAKER_00 34:44

Okay, but they turned that into a banger. They did turn it into a banger the cat. Eating the dogs, they're eating the cat.

SPEAKER_01 34:49

Did you see again? Not to like unfortunately a comedian, but like also the president, so it's like really upsetting. I didn't watch his like address about Iran, but um, you could tell when he was like going off prompter, but also when he would like remember what was in the speech. So he was like, We're gonna blow him up, tear him to the ground. Uh negotiations are underway. Oh, it's like, well, which is it, D.Va? Are we blowing him to the ground or are we are we negotiating? You could just tell when he was like riffing.

SPEAKER_00 35:15

And I'm sure someone was in his ear, like, nope, nope, nope, don't say that, don't say that.

SPEAKER_01 35:18

You can send us a DM as well. We have a lot more people who sent us things that we want to talk about. Yes. So if you have a topic that you feel like we're not addressing that you want to address, there's only so much time in a week, D.Va.

SPEAKER_00 35:29

But correct. Send us a message because we love to talk about things we have no idea about. So I think, oh, do you know what we'll do one day?

SPEAKER_01 35:36

I did this on the RIP the other podcast. Um, we'll make a bowl and we'll pick them out and then we won't we won't go with that. So send your suggestions to at Mary Did You Know Pod on Instagram. Yes. Okay. All right, we'll take a break and we'll be right back.

SPEAKER_00 36:05

And we're back.

SPEAKER_01 36:06

I've been having some microphone issues on this episode, Diva, so please, please respect whatever we ended up being able to work out of this one.

SPEAKER_00 36:13

Yeah, it's been a thrill for me.

SPEAKER_01 36:17

I just looked over at you and you looked annoyed. You looked over it.

SPEAKER_00 36:22

No, it's okay. I'm having a great time. Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_01 36:24

Are you? Are you having a great time with me? Your best friend sitting here, really enjoying life, enjoying what our conversation has to offer, you cunt.

SPEAKER_00 36:34

And when his mic fails, we have to do that four more times. So it's working now, you bitch. Okay, so we're gonna get into our titular segment.

SPEAKER_01 36:46

Tensions are high today. Okay, so our titular Mary, did you know segment? Would you like to go first? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 36:53

With a working microphone? Yes, I would love to. Um, and this is one that I don't even think you know this, and we haven't discussed it. Oh, and it's not um it wasn't in the notes app. So um, Mary, did you know I'm becoming a furniture flipper? You're a furniture flipper? I am becoming a furniture flipper. What are we flipping? I'm looking around. Well, it's in the garage right now. I literally was on um buy nothing last night on Facebook, and someone posted this like antique, kind of like it's not a a dresser, but it's not a desk. It's kind of like just a side table type thing, but it's like gorgeous and it was free. So I was like, hell yeah, I want that. So I picked it up. Um last night I drove to this woman's house and loaded it into my truck and came home, and I'm gonna work on it this weekend, and I'm gonna flip it and then try to sell it. Listen, wait, I live.

SPEAKER_01 37:50

Okay, wait, I'm gonna take a look at it before I leave. It's just to get in its current state.

SPEAKER_00 37:54

Um, it definitely needs a little work, but it's like good solid wood, and you know, it's beautiful. I love good solid wood. Yes, yes. The rumors are true. The rumors um it is it's beautiful, and I am excited. I've been watching like a shit ton of videos on like Instagram and Facebook on like just people doing furniture flipping, and it's like in my algorithm, and I'm like, bitch, I could do that.

SPEAKER_01 38:17

Well, you did so much in this house already, but like that's not it's not too I mean, yeah, like it's big you're basically doing what you did to these walls and stuff, and some of the it's just like too much piece of furniture.

SPEAKER_00 38:27

Right. And it's it it's actually not that hard, it's just it just takes some time. But like people are getting this free furniture from like Facebook Marketplace or even going to like Goodwill or Savers and buying like cheap furniture and then flipping it and then selling it for hundreds of dollars.

SPEAKER_01 38:43

That's what I mean. It's also gonna be like a beautiful like weekend. You can like have the garage door open, you can start working on it tomorrow. Yeah, so that's my plan for tomorrow. That would be lovely, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 38:52

And we'll see how this first one goes. So I'm sure I'll check in back on the pod next week.

SPEAKER_01 38:58

I can share a before and after. Maybe a shareholder will buy it.

SPEAKER_00 39:01

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, but we'll see how it goes. And if it is good and I'm turns out I'm good at it, then maybe I'll keep doing it. And you know, who couldn't use some extra cash?

SPEAKER_01 39:12

Listen, that's real.

SPEAKER_00 39:14

Yeah. Oh, I love that. Um, and now that I have the freaking truck, like I can go to that's true, you can pick up furniture. You can like pick up shit in a way that like you couldn't have before. Exactly. Oh, look.

SPEAKER_01 39:24

Exactly. Which is really, you know, you put eighty eighty dollars worth of gas in that thing, and you're gonna make sure that you get your money's worth.

SPEAKER_00 39:30

Mary, did you know I spent eighty dollars to fill my tank? Which I guess is like for a truck, that's not as bad as it could be. Um, because my soon-to-be brother-in-law, Brandon, he has a truck, and we were talking in the family group chat, and I guess it he said it was like $120 to fill his tank, and I'm like, damn, bitch. Oh, so yours, I guess, is better on gas than that one. I don't know if it's better on gas. I think I might just have a smaller gas tank. Okay. But mine is actually not bad on gas. I think my average mile per gallon is like around 2021. Okay. Um, it depends on like if I'm driving in the town or on the highway.

SPEAKER_01 40:09

But I saw a TikTok that was like, that was like, I don't know why y'all complain about gas prices. I just put $20 in every time, which did make me laugh.

SPEAKER_00 40:16

That is funny. Um Matthew, our good friend Matthew, is also complaining on Twitter about like people complaining about the gas prices. I'm like, Diva, girl, like I'm so like like you're driving down the street and back. Yeah, you work from home and then you're and your other place of employment you could technically walk to. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 40:36

And we've done it. And we have. The um, yeah, that's uh I I filled mine up the other day, and I used to be able to film that car up with like 35. And then it was I put in 30, and I was like, oh, we're halfway. Yeah, that's different, but that's again the money thing, like the the price of gas. Um, okay. Well, I'll go next. Uh Mary, did you know that Christy Gnome's husband is into bimbo play?

SPEAKER_00 41:03

Okay, wait, I saw something about this online. Can you please tell me all the information?

SPEAKER_01 41:07

So Christy Gnome um is the former Depart uh Secretary of Homeland Security who got who got canned. Um, and she has been the the pre-quilt to this is that she is very knowingly having an affair with someone who with her subordinate whose name is Cory Lewandowski, who works for the Trump administration, but he has like a fake job because he is um has like assault allegations, so he can't get a security clearance. So he has like a fake job that he's like her advisor, but they like knowingly like have sex on like this like plane that like the government is paying for. Like it's an open secret that like she's cheating on her husband. It's like okay. That part is like it's like a prequel to this. And like she was under oath and they were asking her about it, which is kind of messy, but she wouldn't respond to it. She goes, I refuse to answer these allegations. And it's like, well, you refuse to answer these allegations because you're because you know it's you don't want to lie under oath.

SPEAKER_00 41:54

Right, right.

SPEAKER_01 41:55

So um recently it comes out, she gets canned. It just came out that her husband is like into like wearing giant, like jimbo size breasts and like camming with girls who also have giant breasts and being like, oh, like just like bouncing them and like being like dressing up with all these giant tits, and like I guess it's like it's like a bimbo fetish. It's about just like having giant tits and like that is insane.

SPEAKER_00 42:23

Yeah. I mean, I don't I don't shame.

SPEAKER_01 42:26

I thought it was fake. I think like that's the thing. Is this another conspiracy theory? No, there are no there are there. This is like it was on like people.com and like Washington Post and that's New York Times. This is real. Listen, good for him. Well, that's kind of my thing, but also it kind of goes back to the whole thing because like I don't know this man, and like we know her politics. I mean, she used to be the governor of North Dakota, or one of the Dakotas. Why are there two? Don't know. But she was um governor of one of them before she got had this job now, and it's like, I'm sure he's a fucking like like crazy conservative who hates gay people. Oh, yeah. Okay, so then that's that's why it becomes a problem where it's like where it's like there's like I support your ability to wear your giant fake titties and dance around. Yes, but you don't support you probably hate drag queens. Do you know what I mean? So it's like that's where that's where it always becomes the people who throw the stones are the one who put the stones in their asshole. Yes. Like that's like that's how it all Yes you can write that on a mug.

SPEAKER_00 43:21

Yeah. Okay, so um on the record, I take back my my good for him.

SPEAKER_01 43:24

Yeah. Well, no, I mean, again, I feel like we can say good for him because we're not gonna shame him. So we can say good good for you. I'm glad that you get your jollies, putting on your big inflatable titties and bouncing them around, but then don't get mad when the drag queen wants to do that somewhere.

SPEAKER_00 43:40

Yeah, that's true.

SPEAKER_01 43:41

Also, I I said to my husband, I go, where did he hide those? They're quite they're quite large. And he goes, and I guess my head see a TikTok about this or something. He goes, I think they're like inflatable. Oh so he he had them in like a drawer. Got it. And then she left that. I saw a TikTok that was like it was like it was like Christy Gnome's husband when she leaves her work and he's like, bye, honey. You remember immigrants aren't people. And then he was like, Oh, oh, in the mirror with his big titties.

SPEAKER_00 44:05

Oh my god. So when did she shoot the dog? Is that true? Oh, yeah. She should she put it in her book. She actually shot her dog in her book.

SPEAKER_01 44:12

She writes that was the other tweet I saw. They were like, they were like, I like that when she was shooting the dog outside, he was just like like playing and dressed up with his big ass. So those are the videos I've seen, and I thought the shooting the dog was like a joke. Oh, she in her book, she because she tries to talk about how it's like an act of like heroism and bravery and like oh no, like because like she I put the dog out of its misery, but no, instead she just like wrote down on paper that she shot her dog. Oh, this woman is whacked. Yeah, she's crazy. That's why they they call her like like um like deportation Barbie because she just also you look at older photos of her, like she does not look the same. Oh, she's all filler and all this, like yeah, but so this is why we just have like reality people who want to be on TV in the government and not doing actual jobs. So no, that's all real. I thought it was fake too. That's crazy. And I guess I saw a video of Trixie and Katia in Toronto, and Trixie at live was telling Katya what happened, and then they were like then they were like clicking and like putting up the photos because there's photos of him in a breastplate in the tits. I mean, with like a giant, with like a big like t-shirt on, it's like wet, and he's just like, oh that's crazy.

SPEAKER_00 45:12

Listen, you know what?

SPEAKER_01 45:13

Everyone just wants big old tits. Everyone does, everyone wants to grab them, everyone wants to have them.

SPEAKER_00 45:17

Everyone does. That's and you know, with that and with that, we will bid you adieu.

SPEAKER_01 45:22

We're gonna wrap it up now for another week. So, because I can't support my microphone crapping out anymore. We're gonna get a new chord next week, divas. Just as it dies.

SPEAKER_00 45:31

Just as it dies.

SPEAKER_01 45:32

We're gonna get a new chord next week, divas. Uh-huh. Okay, goodbye.

SPEAKER_00 45:35

Okay, bye.